Opening Blog
24 October 2014 | Portland, Or,
Mark
This is the introductory notice of the condition of Gifty's preparations to cruise. Mark and Mary Johnson live aboard SV Gifty, a Columbia 36 sloop rigged sail boat. In the 4 years since we purchased her we have made as many improvements as was possible, time and money permitting.
We have added a Garmin 5208 chart plotter, auto pilot, new suite of North Sails triple reef main, full battened, 130 genoa, asymmetrical genaker, new Pro Furl fuller, radar arch, 2 158 volt solar panels and done many repairs and improvements.
We hope to be ready to depart for San Diego in late August of 2015 for the first leg to Mexico. I will add more updates as we progress.